The red Queen

Locations
Call Number: BOCD Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / Historical / Gregory, Philippa
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / Historical / Gregory, Philippa	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Narrated by Bianca Amato and Graeme Malcolm.
"Follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne" -- from publisher's web site.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
Booklist Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Excerpt
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Lady Margaret Beaufort submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on July 28, 2013, 10:41pm In "The Red Queen," Philippa Gregory again explores English history from the personal perspective of one of the key women, this time Lady Margaret Beaufort, who becomes the mother of King Henry VII.

Gregory portrays Beaufort as a very bitter woman, but it is no wonder as her parents married her to a man twice her age when she was 14. Her husband treated her very roughly. When she finally did become pregnant with the much anticipated heir of the Lancastrian line, Beaufort's mother tells the midwives to save the baby and sacrifice the mother if need be during the birth.

Although Beaufort falls in love with her late husband's younger brother (it is not clear if this is historically accurate), she instead marries again to someone who can help her son gain the throne. In this, as in other novels about historical figures, Gregory takes some poetic license in order to make the characters more believable and further the plot.

SPOILER ALERT: Beaufort's son becomes England's King Henry VII and weds the scion of the York family, Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward IV.